Building a SaaS is 50% coding, 50% fixing the stuff you broke yesterday 😭
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The real founder coding vibe:
You ship a “small fix” → break 3 things
You deploy confidently → production crashes
Local works perfectly → Vercel says “nah”
You spend 1 hour coding → 4 hours debugging
Slack notifications hit → instant anxiety
Founders know the pain:
You’re coding, marketing, fixing bugs, writing docs, and answering customer emails… all at the same time.
What’s your funniest or most painful founder-coding moment recently?
Let’s vibe in the chaos 😂
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I felt this way last night. I pushed a "simple" UI tweak and suddenly three API routes vanished into the void. I swear my code works until it knows people will use it. Founder life is just coding, praying and pretending I know what's happening.
@sabine_engel “simple UI tweak → API vanishes” pipeline is TOO real. Our code literally knows when users are watching
Me and my co-founder's coding routine:
Break something
Fix it
Break something else
Pretend everything is intentional
Repeat 💀
But hey... Just keep going! Progress is progress, right?
@npmitaart Story of every startup ever 😂
If nothing breaks for 24 hours, I start getting suspicious.
But yep — as long as we’re moving forward (even in chaos), we’re winning 🚀
I'm right there with you. I fixed one tiny bug this morning and somehow my auth system decided it needed a vacation. Nothing humbles you faster than production errors popping up while you're sipping coffee. Founder dev life is pure chaos and accidental comedy.
@dontell_levesque fixing one bug and breaking auth is peak founder energy. Production errors while sipping coffee = instant character development 😂☕️
Haha, so true! Just yesterday I fixed a "small bug" that broke the entire label saving system 😅
Spent the whole afternoon recovering, only to discover I introduced 3 new issues...
This is why I now take 3 deep breaths before every code change 😂
@lams001 Haha relatable 😂
One small fix and suddenly the whole system collapses.
Every change feels like a mini deployment adventure now 💀
I get that vibe coding is a really useful tool for those who aren't already software developers, and it opens doors and makes things possible that even 1 year ago would have been impossible. But this post is exactly why professional software developers aren't going away anytime soon...
@philliphamnett True you still need real developers with real panic experience.
SO True sometimes I want to show people a cool new feature just to have broken the whole app by adding that and not realizing until the next da. Love the chaos